Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Mar 10, 2022 |
print number 6940a |
Mar 10, 2022 |
amend (t) and recommit to health |
Jan 05, 2022 |
referred to health |
Apr 14, 2021 |
referred to health |
Assembly Bill A6940A
2021-2022 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
GIGLIO JA
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
Bill Amendments
co-Sponsors
Karl Brabenec
2021-A6940 - Details
- Current Committee:
- Assembly Health
- Law Section:
- Public Health Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §4140, Pub Health L
- Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
-
A2733
2021-A6940 - Summary
Requires each certificate of death to also be filed with the board of elections for the county in which the registrar is appointed and to mail a copy of the death certificate to the department of health and the board of elections in the county in which the person resided at the time of death.
2021-A6940 - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6940 2021-2022 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y April 14, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. J. A. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring each certificate of death to also be filed with the board of elections for the county in which the registrar is appointed THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 4140 of the public health law, subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 352 of the laws of 2013 and subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 476 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows: § 4140. Deaths; registration. 1. The death of each person who has died in this state shall be registered immediately and not later than seven- ty-two hours after death or the finding of a dead human body, by filing with the registrar of the district in which the death occurred or the body was found a certificate of such death, in a manner and format as prescribed by the commissioner, which shall include through electronic means in accordance with section forty-one hundred forty-eight of this title. 2. WHEN A REGISTRAR FILES A CERTIFICATE OF DEATH UNDER SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION, SUCH REGISTRAR SHALL ALSO FILE A CERTIFICATE OF DEATH WITH THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS FOR THE COUNTY IN WHICH THE REGISTRAR IS APPOINTED IN A MANNER PRESCRIBED BY SUCH BOARD OF ELECTIONS. 3. If the certificate of death is properly executed and complete, the registrar of the district in which the death occurred shall then issue a burial or removal permit to the funeral director or undertaker. In case the death occurred from a disease which is designated in the sanitary code as a communicable disease, no permit for the removal or other disposition of the body shall be issued by the registrar, except to a funeral director or undertaker licensed in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, under such conditions as may be prescribed in the sanitary code. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
co-Sponsors
Karl Brabenec
Keith Brown
2021-A6940A (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Assembly Health
- Law Section:
- Public Health Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §4140, Pub Health L
- Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
-
A2733
2021-A6940A (ACTIVE) - Summary
Requires each certificate of death to also be filed with the board of elections for the county in which the registrar is appointed and to mail a copy of the death certificate to the department of health and the board of elections in the county in which the person resided at the time of death.
2021-A6940A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6940--A 2021-2022 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y April 14, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. J. A. GIGLIO, BRABENEC -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring each certificate of death to also be filed with the board of elections THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 4140 of the public health law, subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 352 of the laws of 2013 and subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 476 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows: § 4140. Deaths; registration. 1. The death of each person who has died in this state shall be registered immediately and not later than seven- ty-two hours after death or the finding of a dead human body, by filing with the registrar of the district in which the death occurred or the body was found a certificate of such death, in a manner and format as prescribed by the commissioner, which shall include through electronic means in accordance with section forty-one hundred forty-eight of this title. 2. WHEN A REGISTRAR FILES A CERTIFICATE OF DEATH UNDER SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION, SUCH REGISTRAR SHALL ALSO FILE A CERTIFICATE OF DEATH WITH THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS FOR THE COUNTY IN WHICH THE REGISTRAR IS APPOINTED IN A MANNER PRESCRIBED BY SUCH BOARD OF ELECTIONS. THE REGISTRAR SHALL ALSO MAIL A COPY OF THE DEATH CERTIFICATE TO THE DEPART- MENT AND THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS IN THE COUNTY IN WHICH THE PERSON RESIDED AT THE TIME OF DEATH. 3. If the certificate of death is properly executed and complete, the registrar of the district in which the death occurred shall then issue a burial or removal permit to the funeral director or undertaker. In case the death occurred from a disease which is designated in the sanitary EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD10347-02-2
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